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The line that hits me on another level.

You cannot hurt someone who has read Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Camus for fun. Their serotonin left the chat years ago.

The older I get, the more I realize intelligence is overrated. Intelligent people are more likely to overthink, overplan, and overanalyze. They hide behind motion that doesn't create progress. They fear the judgment of others if they're proven wrong. The truth is that intelligence is abundant. Courage is not. The people you admire are the ones who had the courage to act. They aren’t more talented than you. They aren’t smarter than you. They just took action when you didn’t. I often wonder how many extraordinary people wasted their entire lives waiting for permission that never came. Permission isn't granted. It's taken. You get to tap yourself in whenever you want. You can just do things. Courage beats intelligence.

Government Primary schools and secondary schools have been systematically ruined across all Indian states. At the same time, in all major private schools, you will find stakes of neats and babus. Just for trivia, how much do you think gov spends per student in gov schools?

You’re not as important as you think. The world moves on very quickly. Life goes on no matter what. And people don’t care as much as you think they do.

You are admired only when you win. Until then, you are tolerated at best, mocked at worst, and invisible in between. This is the law of existence: success or contempt. The world does not pity the unsuccessful man—it condemns him.

It’s hard for anyone to be strategic if they don’t enjoy solitude.

Charlie Munger on how to succeed: “It’s so simple: you spend less than you earn. Invest shrewdly. Avoid toxic people and toxic activities. Try to keep learning all your life. And do a lot of deferred gratification. If you do all those things, you are almost certain to succeed. And if you don’t, you’ll need a lot of luck. And you don’t want to need a lot of luck. You want to go into a game where you’re very likely to win without having any unusual luck.”

When sandalwood is cut, it does not lose fragrance; The elephant does not stop being playful even when he grows old. Sugarcane does not stop being sweet when squeezed in a mill; Similarly, people of good birth do not discard their cultured behavior even when pinched by poverty.

You are very lucky if you have these 5 people in your inner circle. 1) The teacher - someone who pushes your boundaries. The mentor. 2) The Friend - They bring joy and always stand by you. 3) The mirror - They show you flaws and strengths with clarity. They keep u honest. 4) The ideal- Someone whom u admire and have achieved what u want to achieve. 5) The anchor - Someone who keeps u grounded. They remind u of your values and where u started. Are you lucky?

Your brain literally isn't finished installing the software yet at 29. The neuroscience on this is staggering. The prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for complex decision-making, long-term planning, and judgment, doesn't complete structural development until around age 25. But a 2026 study out of Université de Montréal found that key network wiring and efficiency in the brain keep optimizing into the early 30s. The "age 25" cutoff that went viral on TikTok came from NIH brain scans in the early 2000s that simply stopped collecting data at age 20 and estimated from there. So when you're sitting by a lake at 29 wondering what you're supposed to do with your life, your brain is still physically building the architecture for the answer. Here's where it gets interesting. MIT and Harvard ran cognitive tests on nearly 50,000 people and found that different mental abilities peak at completely different ages. Raw processing speed peaks around 18. Short-term memory tops out near 25. Working memory holds into the early 30s. But the ability to read other people's emotions doesn't peak until your 40s and 50s. Vocabulary and accumulated knowledge keep climbing into your late 60s. The type of intelligence you need to pick the right career at 22, fluid intelligence, is the one that peaks earliest and declines fastest. The type that actually makes you effective at work, crystallized intelligence, is still rising at 29 and won't peak for another 25 years. Career clarity requires pattern recognition across industries, social cognition to read team dynamics, and enough accumulated knowledge to spot real problems worth solving. Every one of those peaks after 30. Most of them peak after 40. The 22-year-old who "figured it out" picked a path using the fastest, most disposable form of intelligence. The 29-year-old still wondering is waiting for the hardware that actually matters.

कानपुर स्मार्ट सिटी का हाल 4 लेन की सड़क पर ट्रैफिक सिर्फ 2 लेन में, क्योंकि बाकी 2 लेन कूड़े से भरी हैं। और हैरानी की बात ये कि इसी सड़क पर UPSIDA, STPI, SGST जैसे प्रमुख सरकारी कार्यालय मौजूद हैं, फिर भी व्यवस्था ऐसी ही है। @nagarnigamknp @SBM_UP @NagarVikas_UP 📍लखनपुर ,कानपुर

Your poverty story is only interesting if you're rich while telling it.

“In 2008, Nifty crashed 50% and my portfolio crashed by 75%. Fortunately, we never borrowed and invested.” “But I did not have enough cash to buy at those cheap valuations. I’ve learned that always have cash for such situations.” - Govind Parikh. March 2025

When Dostoevsky said: “Isolate as much as you want to become stronger, even if you see that loneliness is an unbearable hell, it is much better than the multiple masks of humans”

“In marriage, you shouldn't look for someone with good looks. You look for one with low expectations.” - Charlie Munger (1924-2023)

Me to Virat Kohli:

The absolute best advice for achieving a long term goal by Tolstoy.